> > It shouldn't be a problem, iwht only a few apps running the overhead is > > very small. If by "isn't perfectly tuned" you mean not running SCHED_FIFO > > or a patched kernel that its not that supprising, the context switch will > > be causing big problems. But, at worst it should just make xruns a bit more > > frequent, not go from none to some. > > What I have noticed is subtle, I have xruns in both situations but > the rate increases noticeably. I've been running patched kernels but > there are all kinds of parameters > (as I'm sure you know) to tweak before it is sufficiently solid. I > would consider my findings pretty much expected behaviour with a > less then perfectly tuned system.
I thought I'd pipe up here, as I use jack on a totally unpatched, untuned system (with SCHED_FIFO) and get rock solid performance. All crashes etc have so far been problems with my code :) Dave
